attend
to. Wise head, that could discriminate the dead Formulas of such an
imbroglio, from the not-dead; and plant himself upon the Living Facts
that do lie in the centre there! "We cannot have a Reichs Mediation-Army,
then? Nor a Swabian-Franconian Army, to defend their own frontier?"
No; it is evident, none. "And there is no Union of Princes possible; no
Party, anywhere, that will rise to support the Kaiser whom all Germany
elected; whom Austria and foreign England have insulted, ruined and
officially designated as non-extant?" Well, not quite No, none; YES
perhaps, in some small degree,--if Prussia will step out, with drawn
sword, and give signal. The Reich has its potentialities, its formulas
not quite dead; but is a sad imbroglio.

Definite facts again are mainly twofold, and of a much more central
nature. Fact FIRST: A France which sees itself lamentably trodden into
the mud by such disappointments and disgraces; which, on proposing
peace, has met insult and invasion;--France will be under the necessity
of getting to its feet, and striking for itself; and indeed is visibly
rising into something of determination to do it:--there, if Prussia and
the Kaiser are to be helped at all, there lies the one real help. Fact
SECOND: Friedrich's feelings for the poor Kaiser and the poor insulted
Reich, of which Friedrich is a member. Feelings, these, which are not
"feigned" (as the English say), but real, and even indignant; and
about these he can speak and plead freely. For himself and his Silesia,
THROUGH the Kaiser, Friedrich's feelings are pungently real;--and they
are withal completely adjunct to the other set of feelings, and go
wholly to intensifying of them; the evident truth being, That neither he
nor his Silesia would be in danger, were the Kaiser safe.

Friedrich's abstruse diplomacies, and delicate motions and handlings
with the Reich, that is to say, with the Kaiser and the Kaiser's few
friends in the Reich, and then again with the French,--which lasted for
eight or nine months before closure (October, 1743 to June, 1744),--are
considered to have been a fine piece of steering in difficult waters;
but would only weary the reader, who is impatient for results and
arrivals. Ingenious Herr Professor Ranke,--whose HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH
consists mainly of such matter excellently done, and offers mankind a
wondrously distilled "ASTRAL SPIRIT," or ghost-like fac-simile (elegant
gray ghost, with stars dim-twinkling throug